HELIOTROPE

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.

2.
n.

A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also turnsole and girasole. H. Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers.

3.
n.

An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror.

4.
n.

See Bloodstone (a). Heliotrope purple, a grayish purple color.


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